Are spell storing weapons worthwhile at highers levels?

[Orm]

As long as you know your oppponent and can prepare for the fight, a spell storing weapon can be useful even at higher levels. Cure wounds against undead, touch of idiocy against spellcasters, suggestion against fighter types. Spells like shocking grasp against creatures with vulnerability against electricity, give it to the rogue and he will deliver some more d6 electricity damage on a successful sneak attack for a good effect.

Orm

 

[Orm]

Combine this with a ring of spell storing, loaded with true strike

 

[Darmanicus]

As long as you know your oppponent and can prepare for the fight, a spell storing weapon can be useful even at higher levels. Cure wounds against undead, touch of idiocy against spellcasters, suggestion against fighter types. Spells like shocking grasp against creatures with vulnerability against electricity, give it to the rouge and he will deliver some more d6 electricity damage on a successful sneak attack for a good effect.

Orm

I agree. Whilst a shocking weapon might always be in effect, it'll do nothing to a creature resistant or immune to electricity. With a spell storing weapon you can tailor it every time to suit your need just so long as your intel is good!

 

[Darmanicus]

Magic Item Basics:



While staffs are an exception, spell storing weapons aren't.

Yeah but in this case the item is not producing the spell, it's the caster, the item is just a medium thru which it's being delivered therefore DC will be based on the casters stats.

 

[Diirk]

Actually no, its the item. Just like a wand, a scroll, or a ring of spell storing. In all 3 of those cases, the DC is set the same way, just as it is by a weapon of spell storing.

And again, I don't think you can put rays in a weapon of spell storing, as they don't have a target line.

 

[Jdvn1]

So, basically, is it useful? Yes. For damage dealing? Well, that's a different story.

 

[kjenks]

Spells with "Target: You" are fun spells to put into Spell Storing Armor Spikes +1.

Your fighter buddy can spend one of his attack actions (like that third iterative attack at -15 that never hits anything) to hit himself for some nonlethal damage (1d6+1+Str) and get himself a combat buff spell.

Level 0-3 Player's Handbook spells with Target: You

Alter Self
Arcane Sight * 375 gp
Blink * 375 gp
Comprehend Languages * 25 gp
Disguise Self * 25 gp
Divine Favor * 25 gp
Entropic Shield * 25 gp
Expeditious Retreat * 25 gp
False Life * 150 gp
Find Traps * 150 gp
Glibness * 525 gp
Invisibility Purge * 375 gp
Know Direction * 12.5 gp
Longstrider * 25 gp
Meld into Stone * 375 gp
Mirror Image * 150 gp
Read Magic * 12.5 gp
See Invisibility * 150 gp
Shield * 25 gp
Speak with Animals * 525 gp
Speak with Plants * 1,000 gp
Tree Shape * 150 gp
True Strike * 25 gp

* Scroll available in DMG list

 

[Hypersmurf]

Searing Light cast by a 10th level character - +5d8 no save, +10d6 to Undead.

Still not worth it?

Firstly, as noted, Searing Light has an Effect, not a Target, so it isn't eligible to be placed in a Spell-Storing weapon.

Secondly, while it's not found under the weapon ability description:
Spell Storing, Minor: A minor ring of spell storing contains up to three levels of spells that the wearer can cast. Each spell has a caster level equal to the minimum level needed to cast that spell.

Vibrant purple ioun stone: Stores three levels of spells, as a ring of spell storing.

I certainly wouldn't take issue with any DM who ruled that the weapon, like the ring and the stone, casts the spell at minimum caster level... 2d8/5d6 for a Searing Light, even if it were a legal spell.

Can you store a Sudden Maximized Scorching Ray? The Sudden part keeps it at the appropriate level.

The Ring states: "Metamagic versions of spells take up storage space equal to their spell level modified by the metamagic feat."

I'd need to check Complete Arcane before I ruled on that one.

... assuming Scorching Ray were a legal spell, which it isn't

-Hyp.

 

[spade413]

If your DM allows the Frostburn book, try the spell Shivering Touch. 3d6 Dex damage (not penalty), touch spell, no save, 3rd lvl for Cleric/Sorcerer/Wizard.

 

[Plane Sailing]

target, effect, sass frassin sassanach! Why or why did they decide to over-complicate things by including so many different forms of nomenclature! Come the revolution all of these complications will be FIRST against the wall, you see if they aren't